Chanakya Quotes

"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves."

"Your visions will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakes."

"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darknesses of other people."

"One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious."

"Until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate."

"The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed."

"We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses."

"Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself."

"The word 'happy' would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, and the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."

"Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart."

"Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health."

"The pendulum of the mind oscillates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong."

"Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also."